Sorry for the late reply.
On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 13:39 -0500, Jonathan Siegle wrote:
Is there a way to tell the dovecot mbox_snarf plugin to use an alternate location for the index/cache files? It doesn't seem to want to use the INDEX variable. I'm guessing the answer is no because of all the ties in lib-storage/index/mbox/*c to the directory where the file(that is the inbox) lives. The filesystem where I keep the inbox file doesn't have a directory for the user to own. The user only owns the mbox file.
It's not possible to specify the index location because of how the plugin has been implemented. The best you could easily do by modifying sources is to disable indexes for INBOX. Other than that it would require larger changes, perhaps a full rewrite.